Ape
קוֹףStrong’s H6971qoph
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qoph is the Hebrew word usually translated “monkeys”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.”
Meaning
- Ape
How it's translated
- and monkeys 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
קוֹף qoph · ape
ape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ape” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APE, noun
- A genus of quadrupeds, found in the torrid zone of both continents, of a great variety of species.
- One who imitates servilely, in allusion to the manners of the ape; a silly fellow.
All definitions and other forms of “ape”
APE, verb transitive
To imitate servilely; to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions. Weak persons are always prone to ape foreigners.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.